240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Following 'Blueprint for a Green Economy' (the Pearce Report), David Pearce and his team have turned their attention to global environmental threats. If it makes sense to apply economic analysis to national environmental problems, then it makes even more sense to apply it to world-wide dangers. The authors start by describing the reasons for using economic approaches to common resources like... Read more
Introduction * The Global Commons * Global Warming: The Economics of a Carbon Tax * Global Warming: The Economics of Tradeable Permits * Economics and the Ozone Layer * Environmental Degradation in the Third World * Population Growth * Tropical Deforestation * Environmentally Sensitive Aid * Conserving Biological Diversity * Environment, Economics and Ethics * Epigraph * Index
Biography
David Pearce is co-author of Blueprint for a Green Economy and Sustainable Development.
